Allow to install and run in standalone setup about pynitrokey HOT 6 CLOSED

FWIW, feel free to include the installation method for Arch Linux in your documentation (if you want to):

sudo pacman -S python-pynitrokey

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I understand the incentive behind this, however this is unfortunately nothing that works for downstream distributions.
On Arch Linux for example we have all the dependencies packaged.

As a user of the fido2 package it is really the best solution IMHO to keep up-to-date with the upstream (tests for this can even be automated). Bundling dependencies usually leads to bit rot and a an eventual larger amount of work to increase the versions of all dependencies at once.

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Sure! This is actually something else than #60. Here we would like to have a standalone package/binary for users, who either do not know Python packagement system, or do not want to mess anything in their environment by installing user-wide packages. At the same time we assume they do not have access to the tool by other means.

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Setting this to low priority, since we do not have much demand for this feature at the moment.

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Our recommended installation process now uses a virtual environment, so I think we can close this issue – @szszszsz?

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The main idea behind this ticket was to make a single executable standalone binary/package, which would not require further network communication (like AppImage). Again, I have not heard about such requests anymore, hence I guess we could consider this outdated and close it.
Let's reopen otherwise.

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